Would you play next year if they announced all servers shutdown 12/31/13?

[Ryce]

This is not an announcement. This is only a hypothetical scenario.

Change of plans. SoA is not a new expansion - it's a drawn-out end-of-days world event. All servers will be shut down at the end of next year. SE will not release the server source code or license it to another provider... the game is just gone.

Would you play next year? For how long? Would you try to complete certain content? Would you even start on a relic or mythic (if you haven't already) knowing it has no use come New Year's Day?

The underlying question is - would you try to get in as much FFXI as you could, or would you 'cut your loses', so to speak, and move on? I'm interested to hear other people's position on this, as I sometimes think I keep playing this game simply because I know one day I won't be able to and I'll miss it. Thoughts?

[Arcon]

31/12/2013*

[Llana_Virren]

31/12/2013*

Both date formats are acknowledged as correct.

[Mirage]

But only one makes sense.

[Ryce]

31/12/2013*

31/12/2013*

[Alhanelem]

I think most people here would stick it out to the end.

[Arcon]

Both date formats are acknowledged as correct.

It's not about what is correct, it's about what makes sense. This does not make any kind of sense, and whoever thought of it should be shot right after the guy who thought up daylight savings time.

[Mirage]

Daylight savings actually had a practical application back in the day. Not so much anymore, though.

[SMD111]

as far as date formats it depends ware your from
mm=month
dd=day
yyyy=year

in the us it mm/dd/yyyy
in the uk/europe it dd/mm/yyyy
in other places it yyyy/mm/dd or yyyy/dd/mm

it all depends ware you are
here is info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country

[Arcon]

Even the US is starting to become less insane, many organisations and institutions are adopting to a profile conforming to the ISO 8601 specification, which describes the order in big endian format (years first, followed by months, followed by days).